{"id":264937,"date":"2026-05-09T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264937\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:52:10","slug":"1-dead-firefighter-injured-after-fire-at-tampa-storage-facility-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264937\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Dead, Firefighter Injured After Fire At Tampa Storage Facility: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FL \u2014 One person is dead after a fire broke out at a storage facility in Tampa on Friday night, according to reports citing authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was first reported shortly after 8:30 p.m. at Public Storage, located at 6940 N. 56th St., Hillsborough County Fire Rescue said in statements obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/hillsborough-county\/1-killed-in-fire-at-tampa-storage-facility-fire-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WFLA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/hillsboroughcounty\/tampa-public-storage-fire\/67-ad26ec7c-2f6b-4a91-9579-9b6e9fd5a391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WTSP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crews encountered heavy flames at the facility and contained the fire in about two hours, reports said.<\/p>\n<p> According to WTSP, crews found the victim dead inside a storage unit. His identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter was also injured in the blaze and received treatment at the scene, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 One person is dead after a fire broke out at a storage facility in Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-264937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}